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DBMS > Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeDocument store
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Score0.09
Rank#353  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score0.81
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websiteblueflood.iowww.geomesa.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperRackspaceCCRi and othersIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2013201420102014
Current release4.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScalaErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layerShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandradepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
depending on storage layerEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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